Well, we’re on the last day of our
campaign! I’m excited to say that
on our second to last day you all pulled off some incredible things,
which means that the second funding milestone is now unlocked! This
puts us in a stellar position, but we should keep the momentum going!
If we can keep raising money today, things
will get even more exciting… more on that in a few!

But first, let’s talk about this incredible thing you all did yesterday.

In one day, this community both
met the
full 10k matching grant and unlocked the second funding milestone
in one epic sweep! Let me just say that it’s a very strange problem
to have where you have to discard an entire blogpost you were about to
post about being reasonably close to unlocking the second milestone
because by the time you were going to upload it, your community had
just blown past the target! But that’s what happened.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. ;)

So, where are we at then, things-we-have-unlocked-wise? Let’s take a look:

Wow, that is a lot of exciting stuff! This is going to be an
exciting year ahead in MediaGoblin-land!

You may also be wondering… What about that donor voted feature?
What about that premium hosting reward! Yup, you all have earned both
for sure! We’ll start looking into the best way to do the
donor-feature-voting shortly. As for the premium hosting reward, it
would be unfair to get all the way to 60k on the second to last day
and then on the last day have you all scramble to get in on the
premium hosting. So instead, after the campaign wraps up we’re going
to close down all the rewards, but in a couple of weeks, we’ll make an
announcement and reopen donations-with-rewards, but with only premium
hosting as the reward option. That’ll give us a chance to plan this
way out in the optimum way possible for you all, and give you all a
chance to actually get in on it.

Holy moly! That is some exciting stuff! It also seems like a bit
of a ways away, but it might just be possible after all… we did do
an incredible job yesterday, after all, and the last day of
crowdfunding tends to be the strongest!

We don’t have to make it all the way to the next milestone for
extra cool things to happen, though. Everything additional
donated today
will make more exciting things over the next year more possible. We
are on the verge of making some really thrilling announcements,
including looking into the possibility of having multiple dedicated
resources on the project. We can’t make any promises… how feasible
such things are partly depends on how we do today. And even though
some of that is extra surprises to come, if you have any doubts about
how responsibly we’ll use the money, you can judge for yourself…
we are totally financially transparent.